I’ve read my fair share of blog posts, articles, and books on helping kids and teens navigate the digital age they live in. The brand new book Right Click: Parenting Your Teenager in a Digital World may not be the most extensive one, but it is one of the most level-headed approaches so far.
Right Click was authored by the Fuller Youth Institute, the same research institute that also published the widely acclaimed book Sticky Faith (if you’re a parent and you haven’t read that one: read it. Seriously, that book has taught me so much on how to ‘transfer’ my faith to my son). That means they don’t just throw alarming statistics around—on the contrary. They even warn that stats on teens and media use for instance are anything but clear. And they completely stay away from quoting anything on teens, digital media, and sex, since these stats are notably unreliable. I appreciate their value on being accurate and supporting their claims with research.
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